Improvement in spring bed-bottoms



G. H; EVANS.

SPRING BED-BOTTOM. v No.179,007 Pfitented June.20,1876.

UNITED STATES PATENT UFFIGE.

GEORGE H. EVANS, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIeNoE OF ONE- HALF HIS RIGHT TO JOHN MOFFIT, JR, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SPRING BED-BOTTOMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 179,007,

dated June 20, 1876; application filed October 20, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. EVANS, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented an Improved Spring Bed-Bottom, of which the following is a specification:

The object of my invention is to construct a cheap and simple spring bed-bottom, which will easily yield and adapt itself to the form of the occupant of the bed; and this object I attain in the manner which I will now proceed to describe, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which-.

Figure 1 is a vertical section of my improved bed-bottom, and Fig. 2 a plan view of the same.

A A are the end bars, and B B the Sidebars, of the bed-frame, and to mortised strips D on the latter bars are adapted the opposite ends of strips E, which extend across the bed, and are provided with openings a for the reception of thelower ends of pins I), around which are coiled-springs d, hearing at the top against the under sides of the heads of the pins, and at the bottom against the upper surfaces of the strips E. Over the top of the pins extend a net-work composed of strips f of pieces with spring-pins; but

textile fabric, connected together as shown, and secured, in the present instance, to the side and end bars A and B of the frame, the strips also, where they cross the heads of the pins, being Secured to the same in any suitable manner.

In order to allow the pins 11 to have a slight lateral movement, 1 bevel the openings to in the strips in Fig. 1.

I do not desire to claim, bination, in a bed-bottom,-of

broadly, the comperforated cross- I claim as my invention- The combination of the series of spring-pins I), each entering a beveled opening, a, in a strip, E, with the net-work of flexible strips f secured at the edges and to the top of each.

pin, all as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this Specification in the presence of two sub- GEORGE H. EVANS.

, scribing witnesses.

Witnesses:

HENRY HOWSON, J r., HARRY SMITH.

E downward and outward, as shown I 

